From this Issue
Digging up the facts on soil carbonNew research is showing that building long-term carbon levels in soils can provide multiple benefits to farmers and landholders.
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Can we reduce emissions without an emissions trading scheme?The business sector wants stability and certainty to guide investment, but is an ETS the answer?
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News
Major wetland restoration underway in Victoria
The biggest wetland restoration in the Southern Hemisphere will soon get underway, with the Victorian Government handing over Lake Mokoan in the north of the state to the local Winton Wetlands Committee of Management.
GPs can help ‘close the gap’ in Indigenous health care
Better identification of Indigenous patients in general practices would improve their access to Medicare benefits such as health checks that could help ‘Close the Gap’. Yet, a study from the Australian National University says that many GPs don’t consider ethnicity to be relevant to quality of care.
From the Archive
From little things, big things grow
Jane Goodall's visionary program for empowering young people to get involved in making their community and their environment a better place for all has taken root in Australia.
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By nature, agriculture has its limits
In southern Australia, replacement of natural ecosystems with conventional agriculture has resulted in large-scale disruption of the natural water cycle. These changes stem from the inability of conventional agricultural systems to mimic the function of the original vegetation. The idea of borrowing from natural ecosystems, or 'functional ecosystem mimicry', to produce agricultural systems which best mimic the region's natural ecosystems is being studied.
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Forthcoming Events
Biodiversity month
National, September
http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/month.html
Landcare Week
National, 6-13 September
